Sharper

"A very smooth ride and a very classy piece of entertainment."

"(A) smart, slick, slippery suspense flick."

"You finish the movie wondering if you were the fool all along."

"Before its lesser third act, Sharper manages to juggle its plot twists with panache."

"A quick, complex, yell-at-the-screen crime drama."

"(Sharper) is a lot less sexy than it thinks it is."

"It’s fun. It should have been more fun, but take the fun where you can get it."

"A pretty-looking puzzle."

"Sharper is a bloody good time, even when we can see those surprises coming right down Fifth Avenue."

"It's 20 percent too slick for its own good."

"It's almost literally design philosophy as cinema... elevated by a whip-smart screenplay..."

"Sleek, sexy, sophisticated fun."

"Great acting is a con game, of the highest order, and it’s a pleasure to be Moore’s mark."

"The film’s biggest trick might be casting Moore, Stan and the positively glowing Middleton and still never quite catching fire."

"Sharper clearly wants to mimic that (Mamet) aesthetic, but the whole thing is only good enough as a diversion."

"Piled high with plot twists and packed full of peerless performances..."

"Even in its inherent flimsiness, it’s slick, tight and entertaining."

"In Sharper, we have to figure out who is conning whom and that puts a lot of pressure on the script."

"Silly and unabashedly camp..."

"Caron’s feature debut has the look and feel of a classic con movie. But not the cold, calculating soul."

"While some of the film’s beats are predictable, just as many are legitimately suspenseful and surprising."

"(Sharper is) mostly a hoot and so tidily executed it’s only later that you may find yourself questioning the plausibility of its wacky denouement."

"The cinematic equivalent of a literary page-turner."